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Article

25 Jul 2014

Author:
Associated Press

USA: Twitter acknowledges lack of women & minorities in its workforce & vows "to change its ways”

"Twitter is latest tech company to acknowledge a shortage of women, black, Latino workers", 23 Jul 2014

Twitter acknowledged that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs, just like several other major companies in Silicon Valley. The lack of diversity in Twitter's workforce of roughly 3,000 people was spelled out in data released Wednesday by the...company...Twitter's scarcity of women, black and Latino workers mirrors similar situations at Google Inc., Facebook Inc., Yahoo Inc. and LinkedIn Corp...Twitter Inc. vowed to change its ways...Like some other technology companies, Twitter is supporting programs that teach women how to program computers and introducing internal training programs aiming to weed out biases...[Also refers to Apple]